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The working archive of this whole record. 900 Library Plaza. Beyond the holdings in the introduction — newspapers 1833–present on microfilm, the obituary index of some 800,000 entries (1837–2024), the Community Album, PERSI — the legs lived in four of its collections. The city directories: Williams' 1858–59 first (2,668 names) and the Polk run after it, whose front-of-book officer pages carried the government's successions year by year; the Center's own guide gives the Polk holdings as 1858–1998, and the Fort Wayne Community Schools' printed directories for 1943–60 ride along on the Internet Archive. The Bert J. Griswold Collection of Fort Wayne history, the author's own working papers. The Quest Club papers — a century of members' research papers on Fort Wayne subjects, including the twenty-page paper on the mayors and Lindquist's Electric Works study. And the licensed databases (Newspapers.com Publisher Extra, Fold3 and their kin), free inside the building and nowhere else: a fact of Fort Wayne research life that shapes what can be checked from a desk, and one this record states wherever it matters.
PERSI — the Periodical Source Index, the genealogy world's index to its own periodicals — was created at this library in 1986, guided by Michael Lower, then by Curt Witcher from 1987, and made free on the library's own site in 2022. A Fort Wayne record that cites the index should know the index is Fort Wayne's.
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- Every leg; the government leg's directory officer pages above all.